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Q. We haven't even talked about your two terms as it?s possible to be a man with a plan without having a
president of the Nashville British Car Club. But to wrap plan or being able to modify a plan you thought you
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this up, you?e not exactly a car show guy if that had, you?ve pretty much described yourself. What
means everything has to be perfect, but you love to go about you, aside from the cars, do you think would
to car shows and share your cars. surprise the people who?ve known you for a while if
they were to discover it?
You are a guy that had a dream car but then had a car
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you didn? know anything about dropped in your lap A. I believe that, despite being very much an
and it turned into being not only a dream car but one ?engineer? in my approach to life and its
that sent you down a road that included making new problems, I am pretty much right and left brained
friends and relationships in England. in my thinking. In high school, I was in a class of
360 kids and was voted as class artist for three of
Your car experience seems to have been a pretty
my four years. I did the frilly homecoming floats,
serendipitous affair. Do you still have a road trip that
event signs, announcement layouts, and helped
you and Carol have always thought about making but
with event decorations ? .sorta ?sissy? stuff!
have yet to do?
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If that doesn? get them, my enjoyment from doing
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A. I really don? think there is such a dream trip for
Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, or Ricky Nelson at
us, not just because my cars are so iffy when far
Karaoke might catch some ?off-guard?.
from home but because we?ve traveled so much of
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the country by car already. But we don? hesitate to Q. Anything else before we close?
go driving if an opportunity seems irresistible.
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A. I don? think, after this, I have many secrets left.
Q. Your last answer about a dream trip seems right. If
Fr om t he Ar chi ves- a l ook i nsi de t he Ri l ey Wor ks i n Covent r y i n t he 1930s

( Sor r y, t hi s bl ack and whi t e vi deo has no sound t r ack)
"I'll let all you Riley experts into a secret: the reason Riley had such wacky engineering on their cars was due to a
each engineer despising the others. They never talked to each other or socialised, they operated from different
offices, never read the briefs together . When each separate design was brought together another engineer was
then tasked with designing a new part that would fit from the two earlier designs. This is fact and eventually led
to the demise of Riley. I know". Source: A comment that followed the video below.

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